Survivors of Bergen-Belsen, near Hanover in northern Germany, held private ceremonies on Friday to mark their liberation by British troops on 15 April 1945.

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Anne Frank died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945, aged 15.

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The house has been turned into a museum dedicated to the young girl, who died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945 aged 15.

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She died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen camp in March 1945.

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It is based on a former miner who was one of the first Allied soldiers to enter Belsen concentration camp on its liberation in World War II.

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The piece is called Freddie Gilroy and the Belsen Stragglers.

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Edith and Renee were taken to Auschwitz, then to German labour camps and eventually the Belsen concentration camp, where they were when it was liberated by British forces in 1945.

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Only 12 when she was liberated from Bergen-Belsen, she bore the identification number from the concentration camp, tattooed on her arm in blue ink, for the rest of her life.

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My late husband was liberated from Belsen-Bergen.

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